Empathy Is Important

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Sara silverman has a fantastic three minute video that she did when her good, close friend, louis c k, was discovered to have been committing these awful sexual acts. We all live by the attributions we make of other people's behaviour. Is its important to forgive? Does my understanding give me greater compassion for why this person has behaved as they have, and make me more forgiving of it? Or not, that's a moral issue, a moral choice for each of us. It seems to me like empathy is important here. I know paul bloom, psychologist, who i'm hoping to get as a future podcast guest,. He had a brilliant idea: Let's write a

For the first full episode of Mindscape, it's an honor to welcome social psychologist Carol Tavris. Her book with co-author Eliot Aronson, Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me), explores the effect that cognitive dissonance has on how we think. We talk about the fascinating process by which people justify the mistakes that they make, and how that leads to everything from false memories to political polarization. [smart_track_player url="http://traffic.libsyn.com/seancarroll/carol-tavris.mp3" social_email="true" hashtag="mindscapepodcast" ] Carol Tavris received her Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Michigan. She is the author of numerous books, covering topics such as gender, biology, and emotion, and is a frequent contributor to a variety of newspapers and magazines. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science and the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. Carol Tavris on Wikipedia Social Psychology Network profile Amazon.com author page A lecture on "Dissent and Dissonance: The Science and Art of Argument." Download Episode See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.